Flotilla

Lead your orbital battleships to victory in Flotilla! Fight, trade, and explore new planets in your journey through the galaxy. Discover upgrades and artifacts to install on your fleet ships, and engage in battle with bounty hunters and pirate space-chickens.

The mouse + keyboard controls aren't terrible or anything, but looking at the controller layout in the options, I think I would prefer it, especially when it comes to manual control. However, I can't find anything in the options to do this, and switching ...

The game crashes as soon as I start it in Windows 8.1 64-bit.
This used to work for me, but it doesn't anymore. I completely deleted my save files and the game's content on Steam and re-downloaded, but it didn't fix it.
What's going on here?

Would like the chance to build the fleet out a little and have some larger scale battles in the story mode. (10 v 10 sounds about right) Great choice in music too.
Flotilla is enjoyable - a nice change from being bombarded with flashy thoughtless 'ente...